Augustinians, an order of religious; thus called from St Augustine, whose rule they observe. The Augustins, popularly also called Auffin friars, were originally hermits, whom Pope Alexander IV. first congregated into one body, under their general Lanfranc, in 1256. Soon after their institution, this order was brought into England, where they had about thirty-two houses at the time of their suppression.

The Augustins are clothed in black, and make one of the four orders of mendicants. From these arose a reform, under the denomination of bare-foot Augustins, or Minorites, or Friars minor.

There are also canons regular of St Augustine, who are clothed in white, excepting their cope, which is black. At Paris they were known under the denomination of religious of Genevieve; that abbey was the chief of of the order. There are also nuns and canons, who observe the rules of St Augustin.

Augustinians are also those divines who maintain, on the authority of St Augustin, that grace is effectual from its nature, absolutely and morally, and not relatively and gradually. They are divided into rigid and relaxed.

Augustobona, a city of the Tricassiers in ancient Gaul, from whom it was afterwards called Tricasses, and Treccasse; and still farther corrupted to Throare, or Treci; whence the modern name Troyes, in Champagne, on the Seine. See Troyes.

Augustodunum, the capital of the Aedui, where there was a famous academy or school for the education of youth; now Autun, or Autun, in the duchy of Burgundy, on the Arroux. See Autun.

Augustomagus, an ancient town of Gallia Belgica; now Sentin, in the Isle of France. E. Long. 2° 30'. N. Lat. 49° 10'.

Augustoritum, in Ancient Geography, according to some authors the capital of the Pictones, afterwards called Picavi; now Poitiers. But by Antonine's Itinerary from Burdigala to Argantomagus (or Argenton, as it is interpreted by many), it can be no other but the capital of the Lemovices, now Limoges, situated between Velluna of the Petrocorii, or Perigeux, and Argantomagus. E. Long. 1° 22'. Lat. 45° 52'.